The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-29
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recent news from his native country leads him
to think that he is the only survivor OF the IA
nous 3 900.
A MAN in Salt Lake City took some clothes
that had been used about patient afflicted with
diptheria and threw them over q chicken coop
the other evening to air. When the family came
inmates were found dead. The dead fowls had
black marks on their threats in each instance.
And whole brood of young chicks perlshed In
the same way
In the strawberry regions of New Jersey a
cigar box is nailed on tree close to the road
side in front of every farmhouse. II Is placed
there to receive the latest quotations for fruit.
These quotations are telegraphed from the lead
ing cities three times day, and are distributed
by messengers mounted on bicycles. The frIlt-
grower determines by the quotations whether
he will ship his day picking.
A CHICKEN THIEF has recently been arrested
at Xenia o., who seems to be at the head of his
profession. He operated with two-horse COW
cred spring wagon, and was always carefui TO
do his stealing out of his county. 1t is known
that his profits ran as high as 500 per week Tor
several months He would drive to the scene OF
his depredations in the night, and would some
times capture as many as 300 fowl.
EXPERIMENTS are believed to show that
aseptol, or orthopenot- sulphate, is destined to
take the place of carbolic acid as a disinfectant
and antiseptic 1t is a syrupy, brown fluid of
aromatic odor and soluble in alcohol, glycerine
and water, and is not irritating in as strong as
10 per cent. solution. AS an antiseptic it is said
to equal carbolic acid, while possessing also the
advantage of pleasanter odor, more solubility,
etc.
THIS remarkably pleasing horse story comes
from Inyo, Cal: A load of hay was put in a
yard near a stable A horse was loose in the
yard, two others being tied in the stable, the
door of which open. After eating few
bites of the hay the loose horse appeared to re-
member that his companions were debarred
from the feast. He took large mouthfuls,
carried it into the stable and placed it before the
other horses.
PAPER DOORS are coming into use, and. as
compared with those of wood, possess the ad-
vantage of neither shrinking, swelling, cracking
or warping. 1t is formed of two thick paper
boards stamped and moulded into panels, and
glazed together with glue and potash, and then
rolled through heavy rollings. After being
covered with a waterproof coating and then
with one that is fireproof, it is painted, varnish-
ed, and hung in the usual way.
A CHARMING and unique friendship is said to
have sprung up between young German and
young Frenchman in South Holyoke Mass.
Neither can speak the language of the other,
and both are ignorant of the English language.
Under ordinary circumstances these young men
would be lifelong strangers but fate has thrown
them together as roommates in boarding
house, and, although unable to converse other
than by gestures, there has sprung up between
them a friendship of more than ordinary
warmth.
THAT wing of the Dunkard Church known as
the Old Order has been holding its annual ses-
sion in Canton, o. The adherents of this wing
are very conservative, and their mode of wor-
ship is exceedingly crude. They eat what is
known as the Passover, which is composed of
soup made of beef They have large bowls out
of which six or eight will eat at once. After the
feast these Dunkards indulge in what they term
the hOV kiSS-man kissing and
kissing woman. Then the men wash one
another's feet and the women go through the
same ceremony among themselves, after which
preaching goes on.
INVENTOR JOHN w. KEELY who has been Civ
ing exhibitions of what he calls his sympathetic
etheric motor during the past week in Philadel-
phia, has been so bothered by the questions of
puzzled spectators that he has prepared q
printed statement, in which he says that lie is
now graduating his engine, and is at work on
the fifth octave. His system, he says, is founded
on sympathetic vibration, in which there is
neither pressure nor exhaustion, and all the
poweris generated the engines run and the can
non fired through mine. When the present
process of adjustment shall be completed and
when he shall be protected by patents, Kelly
says that he will give an explanation of his
power, knowledge of which can be more easily
acquired than that necessary for the operation
of steam engine.
Poor DANIEL PRATT What asoemnly and I'M
consciously funny man he was as he sung his
incomprehensible words and ideas at the heads
of the irreverent college boys. Much he stood
from these same boys, but once in a while he
resented their chatting with dignity that was
almost pathetic. The Waterbury american
| tells how some Yale boys once got him into a
| students room to "have fun" with him, and
while he speechified they all smoked blowing
| out as heavy clouds as they were able until the
| room was thick The old man struggled man
| fully to go on, but his voice grew husky, he
choked and coughed a little as the smoke pene-
trated his throat, and then drawing himself up
| with mildly resentful dignity he said: Gentle
men, yoIlr orator is not ham, and fed to the
| open air.
If King Kalakaua were to interview the editors
| who are talking about disturbances in the Sand
witch Islands he would very likely ask them to
what part of the world they referred. When
the King was in this country few years ago
| the Mayor Of Chicago, in a moment of aberra-
| ton, introduced him to the Board of Trate as
the King of the Canniba Islands. Kalakaua
thought this toerably good joke, but any
attempts to make him known as the King of the
Sandwich Islands always tended to ruffie the
royal temper. When Capt. Cook discovered the
Hawaiian group he attached to it the name of
an English peer. number of the names Cook
gave to islands he discovered have been re-
placed on the maps by the prettier and more
appropriate native names. Hawaii takes its
name from the largest island in the group The
natives recognize no other name for the group,
and Kalakaua is officially known to other
governments only as the King of Hawaii.
PROF BAYNEs was conversing with one of his
oldest and most intimate friends only two days
before his sudden death, when he happened to
remark that he had made complete arrange
ments, both as to subjects and writers, to the
last word of the Encyclopedia, " and that down
to the letter was now in print, and on the eve
of publication. He accepted the editorship of
the new Encyclopedias Britannica" fourteen
years ago, and it was work Of immense labor
and anxiety. He laid down the Lines" of the
new edition, selected the subjects for fresh
treatment, and the special writer's on science,
art literature, philosophy, etc; and the fact
that the new edition has been a brilliant success
is the best testimony to the editors wide knowl-
edge, rare disceInment, comprehensive sympa-
thy, and, above all, his tact and temper There
was a vast amount of correspondence day by
day, and during his annual visits to London he
was much occupied in personal interviews with
the new contributors. BY the time the under
taking was fairly on its legs the health of the
professor again broke down and he then found
a most capable assistant in Prof Robertson
Smith, who had previously written the article
bible" at the invitation Of the editor.
NEW STORY is told of ouida the novelist in
connection with her visit to London recently.
She, as every one knows, is very eccentric and
has as many whims as an opera singer. She has
been in the habit Of stopping at the Langham
Hotel when in London, and went there upon her
last visit. She stayed along for some time her
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